Motherhood + Parenting

My background is in technical writing. I've written for the Oklahoma Gardener magazine, which is no longer in publication. I've written for OSU's Department of Horticulture Newsletter, I write my own seasonal newsletter The Hort Exhort, I've written OSU...

If you would have asked 17-year-old me what my life would be like at 30 years old, I would have most likely given you an answer that was nowhere near what my life is currently like. Primarily - I would...

I have cancer. It's the rare kind. Literally one in a million. The kind where treatment looks a lot like, "Let's try this and see what happens." The kind that affects multiple systems within my body. In 2017, this cancer...

Have you ever had so many things to do and so many tasks to accomplish that you can't see straight? So many needs to meet and so many hats to wear that you are at a loss for where...

Breastfeeding my baby girl was a priority and an important parenting choice from the moment the pregnancy test was positive. Many of my closest friends breastfed their babies. It had to be easy. My neighbor had a freezer full...

I couldn't wait to turn 16! The journey to get my driver's license seemed simple 25 years ago. I attended Driver's Education, also known as Driver's Ed, during first hour of my sophomore year. Coach Smith taught the basics, ran...

I recently went through a breakup with a best friend. Someone I'd known for more than a decade. Someone I thought about and still think about every single day of my life. It was and still is one of the...

Here's another post about why moms feel we aren't good enough, but I'm not going to talk about societal pressures, or the mental load, or the comparison trap we find ourselves in occasionally. Instead, I'm going to talk about the...

Nope, the gift wasn't a vacation, a fancy purse, flowers, or jewelry. It wasn't even therapy. It was a surgery. A surgery I had to fight tooth and nail for - with six different doctors to be exact! For my entire...

On my way to work this morning, on my very favorite morning radio show, I heard a term completely foreign to me: geriatric millennial. Apparently, it refers to those of us born between 1980 and 1985.  Listen, I've been called...

Every year, it seems the holiday season gets here faster and faster, and folks are throwing up those trees and wreaths sooner and sooner.  Don't get me wrong. I love SO much about this time of year. I love the...

Money, Money, Money...Money can be a hard subject in any family and can be hard to handle. So, how do we teach our kids to handle money? How do we teach them to work hard to earn money, save,...